6 Alzheimer symptoms

Alzheimer: 6 symptoms not to understimate!

What is the Alzheimer disease, how does it occur, which are its symptoms and most of all when to start being aware!

WHAT IS THE ALZHEIMER DISEASE AND HOW DOES IT OCCUR

Alzheimer is a sort of dementia that consists of problems with memory, behaviour and thought.  Commonly the symptoms are developed a bit at a time getting worser as time goes by until the reach the point that they interfere with everyday life.  The Alzheimer disease is therefore a progressive disease, were the dementia symptoms (los of memory between 50% to 80%) worsen gradually during a period of years.  During the initial stages of the disease the the loss of memory is very low; but at an advanced stage, the persons suffering from this disease lose te ability to have a conversation and also to react in their own environment.  Currently it is the sixth cause of death in the U.S.A. and also in Europe the numbers are on the increase.  The average lifetime from the discovery of the disease (with evident symptoms) is approximatel 8 years, but some people can also survive for 20 years, this all depends on their physical condition.

Although currently there still has not been a cure found for the Alzheimer disease, many treatments for the symptoms are available, and luckily enough research keeps going on all around the world.  The current medicines are not able to stop the progression of the disease but they can temporarily slow down the the worsening of the dementia symptoms and improve the quality of life of the people affected and their loved ones around them.

(We must also remember that those around a person suffering from alzheimer go through a drastic and drammatic change in their lives)

6 SYMPTOMS NOT TO UNDERESTIMATE

Like with every disease the premature diagnosis is the one that without any doubt helps most, and this is why it is essential to know which symptoms can help us prematurely understand if it is Alzheimer or not.

• MEMORY: is probably the most common symptom.  The person loses his/her memory and starts finding difficulty in remembering even little things like lunch or dinner, or even the names of relatives.  In this case we must see if it is an occasional case or if it happens more often.
• CARRYING OUT SIMPLE CHORES: pay attention to the simple daily actions such as dressing alone, preparing lunch or dinner, because with Alzheimer these things become very difficult and usually the person affected finds it hard to carry them out completely.
• SPEECH: this is another drammatic symptom of the Alzheimer disease, although the know the object or person that they have in front of them they don’t manage to name it, the feeling is that it is on the tip of their tongue but they can’t remember it.
• APATHY, DEPRESSION, ANXIETY: All terribly unpleasant feelings, interest is lost in activities that were once very interesting of fundamental for the person including his/her family and friends.  They can go from one extreme to another such as first rage, than depression and sadness.
• RECOGNISE IMAGES: They find it hard to recognise images meaning the capability of reading, defining colours and understanding the correct distance from oneself and an object is reduceds.
• LOSS OF ORIENTATION: they start by confusing dates, events and days of the week, in advanced stages they live a sort of perenniale temporal disorientation.

WHAT HAPPENS INSIDE THE BRAIN OF THOSE AFFECTED BY ALZHEIMER

Inside the brain there are approximately 100 billion nervous cells (the so called neurons).  Each one of these is connected to many other cells, forming real and actual communication networks, and each one has a specific task like for example thinking or remembering or even seeing, hearing and so on.

In order to carry out these tasks they must all work in symphony just like in factories were everyone receives his/her own task always keeping in contact with all the other cells though, almost like separate departments which must necessarily collaborate together.  All this enormous process requires constant oxygen, nutrition and coordination.

Scholars believe that the Alzheimer disease intervenes in this cell process, and block this perfect mecchanism in some way.  At the moment nobody knows where all this begins and why, but just like a machine and one fault can compromise all the production.  Furthermore as the damage spreads the cells reduce their ability to carry out their task and as a result die, causing irreversible damage to the brain.

The brain of those affected by Alzheimer presents a higher number of PLAQUES AND TANGLES, and although experts are not yet capable to tell us how and why, it seems that this can in some way obstruct the cells from communicating.

(The plaques are little deposits of a piece of protein called Beta-Amyloid, which accumulates itself in the spaces between the nerfvous cells, whilst the tangles are fibres of another protein called Tau that is accumulated inside the cells)

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